Corruption of Cape Town’s housing waiting list being investigated
The Housing Assembly is taking on a campaign for an alternative and public housing waiting list.
Reclaim the City
Land activists want speedy land reform, restitution and an end to evictions
A group of about 100 land activists marched to Parliament to demand speedy expropriation of land without compensation.
Intersectionality is key to women’s struggles
A seminar was held on Tuesday, 28 August on the challenges facing women’s access to resources from the land and sea.
Landless demand expropriation of land for housing
On Human Rights Day, communities from informal settlements in Cape Town marched for land for housing.
Land and housing activists: “We will take the land because it belongs to us”
There has been an increasing number of land and housing activists that have been murdered lately. Mthunzi “Ras Moziah” Zuma was shot and killed during a road blockade next to the land they were occupying near Khayelitsha Mall. Less than a month later another land and housing activist in Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay 41 kilometres west of Khayelitsha was shot by the police during a housing protest and later died in hospital.
Land and housing activists have pledged to continue taking and occupying vacant land despite brutal repression by the state and the killing of those who fight for land. The commitment was made at seminar in Khayelitsha Monday night where different groups of organisations representing activists from Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town met to share their experiences of state and police brutality.
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